By GP2 Series
Grosjean celebrates a win...
Romain Grosjean took a last gasp win after following championship rival Giorgio Pantano for most of the race when a late storm upset the series leader's rhythm over the closing laps, allowing the Frenchman to nip past for victory.
With mayhem behind them the pair had a long wait to see would join them on the podium: Alvaro Parente held his nerve ahead of the chasing pack to claim a long overdue bottle of champagne as he joined them on the third step.
The start of the race took place under blue skies but with seven laps to go everything changed.
The rain came seemingly out of nowhere, dumping down on the circuit with awesome force and handing the pitlane an awful dilemma: keep their drivers out and hope that they can hold on, or bring them in for wet tyres and lose positions.
The leading pair couldn't come in, so intense was their on-track battle, while behind car after car was spinning or spearing off into the barriers no matter which set of tyres they had.
The result wasn't clear until the chequered flag, when Parente crossed the line for third with Senna, di Grassi, Pastor Maldonado, Andy Soucek and Karun Chandhok finishing nose to tail behind the Portuguese driver.
... but gets penalised and leave victory to Pantano!
Romain Grosjean did not have the chance to savour his new victory for very long: the ART Grand Prix driver has lost his win after he was handed a 25 second penalty when it was shown that he had overtaken backmarker Marko Asmer under yellow flags three laps before the end of the race.
Consequently, Giorgio Pantano was declared the winner with Romain Grosjean taking second in the event.
Along with the Frenchman, three other drivers also got penalised: Mike Conway, Jérôme d'Ambrosio and Vitaly Petrov all received a ten grid place penalty after they failed to slow down under yellow flag in the final stages of the race. They will start today's race from the back of the grid.
Hockenheim - Race 1
Driver Team
1. Romain Grosjean ART Grand Prix
2. Giorgio Pantano Racing Engineering
3. Alvaro Parente Super Nova Racing
4. Bruno Senna iSport International
5. Lucas di Grassi Barwa Int. Campos Team
6. Pastor Maldonado Piquet Sports
7 Andy Soucek Super Nova Racing
8. KarunChandhok iSport International
9. Alberto Valerio Durango
10. Javier Villa Racing Engineering
11. Andreas Zuber Piquet Sports
12. Sakon Yamamoto ART Grand Prix
13. Ho-Pin Tung Trident Racing
14. Marko Asmer Fisichella Motor Sport Int.
15. AdrianValles BCN Competicion
16. Carlos Iaconelli BCN Competicion
17. Michael Herck DPR
18 Roldan Rodriguez Fisichella Motor Sport Int.
Grosjean celebrates a win...
Romain Grosjean took a last gasp win after following championship rival Giorgio Pantano for most of the race when a late storm upset the series leader's rhythm over the closing laps, allowing the Frenchman to nip past for victory.
With mayhem behind them the pair had a long wait to see would join them on the podium: Alvaro Parente held his nerve ahead of the chasing pack to claim a long overdue bottle of champagne as he joined them on the third step.
The start of the race took place under blue skies but with seven laps to go everything changed.
The rain came seemingly out of nowhere, dumping down on the circuit with awesome force and handing the pitlane an awful dilemma: keep their drivers out and hope that they can hold on, or bring them in for wet tyres and lose positions.
The leading pair couldn't come in, so intense was their on-track battle, while behind car after car was spinning or spearing off into the barriers no matter which set of tyres they had.
The result wasn't clear until the chequered flag, when Parente crossed the line for third with Senna, di Grassi, Pastor Maldonado, Andy Soucek and Karun Chandhok finishing nose to tail behind the Portuguese driver.
... but gets penalised and leave victory to Pantano!
Romain Grosjean did not have the chance to savour his new victory for very long: the ART Grand Prix driver has lost his win after he was handed a 25 second penalty when it was shown that he had overtaken backmarker Marko Asmer under yellow flags three laps before the end of the race.
Consequently, Giorgio Pantano was declared the winner with Romain Grosjean taking second in the event.
Along with the Frenchman, three other drivers also got penalised: Mike Conway, Jérôme d'Ambrosio and Vitaly Petrov all received a ten grid place penalty after they failed to slow down under yellow flag in the final stages of the race. They will start today's race from the back of the grid.
Hockenheim - Race 1
Driver Team
1. Romain Grosjean ART Grand Prix
2. Giorgio Pantano Racing Engineering
3. Alvaro Parente Super Nova Racing
4. Bruno Senna iSport International
5. Lucas di Grassi Barwa Int. Campos Team
6. Pastor Maldonado Piquet Sports
7 Andy Soucek Super Nova Racing
8. KarunChandhok iSport International
9. Alberto Valerio Durango
10. Javier Villa Racing Engineering
11. Andreas Zuber Piquet Sports
12. Sakon Yamamoto ART Grand Prix
13. Ho-Pin Tung Trident Racing
14. Marko Asmer Fisichella Motor Sport Int.
15. AdrianValles BCN Competicion
16. Carlos Iaconelli BCN Competicion
17. Michael Herck DPR
18 Roldan Rodriguez Fisichella Motor Sport Int.